Hieam codd



(No Model.)

H. OODD.

BOTTLE.

Patented Jul 13. 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT @EETCE.

HIRAM CODD, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 345.277, dated July 13,1886.

Application filed January 12, 1886. Serial No. 188.346. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, HIRAM on1), a subject of the Queen of Great Britain,residing at 41 Gracechurch Street,in the city of London, England,bottle-manufacturer, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Bottles and Jars; of which the following is a specifi cation.

My invention relates to an improvement in IO bottles of the class whichare practically without necks and have their heads close down to thetops of their bodies, air-spaces being left at the tops when the bottlesare filled,and the bottles being formed with horizontal contracr 5 tionsall around their tops,form'ing, as it were, lines or divisions to markthe points up to which the bottles should be filled. If the bottle iscircular, it is flattened inward on two opposite sides at the top, sothat the portion of the bottle above the contraction may be of an oblongform.

The bottles are closed with internal stoppers, preferably glass balls,which fit up against elastic rings held in grooves formed around 2 5,the interiors of the bottle-heads, and the two opposite sides of theupper part of a bottle so constructed are closed inward toward oneanother to such an extent that they come close enough together to.prevent the stopper from 0 dropping into the lower part of the bottle.

In accordance with my invention, on each of the two opposite sides ofthe upper part of a bottle of this class I make a pair ofindenta /tions= to form internal projections passing 3 5 downward from two sides ofthe head toward the horizontal contraction. Thespacelefflretween thelower ends of these projections on one side of the bottle and the lowerends of the projections of the opposite side of the bottle 0 is madeless than the diameter of the stopper, so that it cannot pass betweenthem. The two projections on each side of the bottle are made toconvergeas they approach the horizontal contraction. In this way, when thebottle is standing upright and the ball is over the cen ter of thehorizontal contraction, it must remain in that position, and cannot rolltoward either end of the contracted upper part of the bottle. When inthis position it is vertically below the mouth of the bottle andin suchclose proximity to the elastic ring that when the bottle has been filledwith aerated liquid and the mouth of the bottle is suddenly relievedfrom pressure the gas rushing upward from the liquid in the bottle willlift the ball and carry it up to its seat, and so at once close thebottle.

When it is desired to open the bottle, the bottle should beheld slightlyinclined,with one end of its upper contracted portion somewhat lowerthan the other end, and'the ball should then be pressed inward. The ballwill then drop to the lower end of the contracted portion, and willremain there until the bottle is inverted, or nearly so. Thecontents ofthe bottle can therefore readily be poured out. To again get the ballover the center of the horizontal contraction, so that the bottle may beagain filled, it} is only necessary to invert the bottle to make theball drop to the mouth,

and then to turn the bottle in a plane at right angles to the directionin which its upper portion is contracted. When the bottle has beenturned beyond a horizontal position, the ball will roll between theprojections in the lower side of the bottle toward the center of thehorizontal contraction, and when arrived there will be held over thecenter of the contraction, as above explained.

One advantage derived from forming the bottle in the above way is thatit can be filled with aerated liquid when held in an upright positionand be closed without inverting-it in the machine. which is ofimportance, because in all machines in which the bottle in order toclose it has had to be inverted the parts of the machine have requiredto be lubricated with oil, and it is difficult to keep the oil en-"tirely away from or to prevent it coming in contact with the variousbeveragesin the bot tles.

Figure 1 of the drawings hereunto annexed shows a side elevation; Fig.2, a vertical section taken lengthwise through the longer length of thecontracted upper portion of the bottle. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectiontaken crosswise of this contraction; and Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectionthrough the line A B, Fig. 2, of a bottle closed with an internalball-stopper and formed in the manner above described. Fig. 5 is alongitudinal section of the bottle in the position in which it is heldwhen being opened. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the bottle in theposition in which it is held to cause the ball-stopper to roll to thecenter of the horizontal contraction.

Ais the contraction formed across the upper part of the body ofthebottle, forming a divisionline between the upper part, B, and thelower part, B, of the body of the bottle. It will be seen that the upperpart, B, is flattened in on two opposite sides, making it of an oblongform, thereby also making the opening 0 between the upper and lowerparts, B B, of an oblong form and of a width somewhat less than thediameter of the ball-stopper D.

E E are converging inward projections formed by external indentations ineach side of the upper part of the body of the bottle.

F' is the elastic ring contained within a groove formed around theinterior of the head of the bottle.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the ball-stopper is shown to be resting against theelastic ring F and closing the mouth of the bottle When the bottle isheld in aslightly-inolined position, as shown at Fig. 5, and the ball ispressed inward, the ballv will drop to the lower end of the contractedupper part of the bottle, as shown, and the contents of the bottle canbe poured out readily. When the contents of the bottle have been pouredout, and the hot- 30 tle, after being inverted, is turned into theposition shown at Fig. 6, the ball will roll between the projections E Eon the under side of the bottle, and will be brought to the center ofthe opening 0, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. When the bottle hasbeen filled with liquid up to the level of the contraction A, and thebottle is drawn away from the nozzle through which it has been filled,thesudden rush of gas toward the mouth of the bottle lifts the ball andcarries it up to the ring F, so at once closing the bottle. Thecontraction A may be made in a straight line instead of being inclinedor curved, as shown.

I claim as my invention- The bottle to be closed with an internalstopper formed with a head close down to the HIR AM CODD.

Witnesses:

HERBERT E. DALE,

W. JAMES SKERTEN,

Both of N0. 17 Gracechm'ch Street, London.

